8 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 5, 1997 MIDEAST BOMBING MIDEAST Continued from Page 1 rounded by overturned cafe chairs and umbrellas. In a scene that has become all too familiar in Israel, ultra-Orthodox burial squad volunteers searched for pieces of flesh in the debris. After the blasts, Israel stepped up pressure on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for an immedi- ate crackdown on Islamic militants, and sealed its borders with the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A previous closure had been eased only two days earlier, ahead of the planned visit of U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright next week. That closure was imposed after a double sui- cide bombing in a Jerusalem market on July 30, which killed 17 people. In Washington, President Clinton denounced the latest bombings and said Albright would go ahead with her trip. He urged Arafat's Palestinian Authority to "do all it can to create an environment that leaves no doubt that terror will not be tolerated." Clinton called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday to express his outrage and condolences, Netanyahu's office said. Israel Radio said Netanyahu canceled plans for his security chiefs to meet with Palestinian Yesterday's bomb is the second terrorist act nthe past month. Arafat's office said Israel was refusing Arafat permission to travel by helicopter from Gaza to the West Bank city of Ramallah. The three nail-studded bombs exploded short- ly after 3 p.m., when hundreds of shoppers and tourists crowded the pedestrian mall, which is lined with cafes, tourist shops, and American fast food restaurants such as Burger King and Sbarro. In the tumult, a toddler was rushed into the back of an ambulance. Paramedics splashed water in the face of one weeping man. Blood spattered the facade of the Israel Discount Bank. Hamas, which has carried out 13 bombings in four years of Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, claimed responsibility and threatened more bombings unless Hamas prisoners held by Israel were released by Sept. 14. Arafat condemned the attack, and a senior Palestinian official pledged full cooperation with Israel on security matters. But Netanyahu said the already deeply trou- bled peace process could not go on unless Arafat crushed Hamas once and for all. "No peace process can exist when to Palestinian Authority enables the leaders of the terrorists to walk around free with their arms, demonstrations and flags in cities that have become refuges for terrorists," he said. Palestinian authorities detained two Hamas, political leaders in the West Bank last night, arrested eight activists and shut down a Hamas newspaper in Gaza, Palestinian security sources said. But the moves fell far short of the mass. arrests Israel is demanding. Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi said he di not think Arafat would crack down on Hamas as he did following a spate of suicide bombings in early 1995. and U.S. security officials, and a source in Congregation Seed of Abraham Zera Avraham A Messianic Jewish Congregation Believing that Yeshua (Jesus) is The Promised Messiah Shabbat Services -Saturday 10 am Meeting at University Reformed Church 1001 E. Huron St., Ann Arbor Dr. Mark Kinzer, Congregational Leader For more information contact. Congregation Zera Avraham PO Box 2025, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 313-663-3573 Albright pledges to visit Mideast Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright vowed yester- day to go through with a visit to the Middle East next week - her first since taking office - despite a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem that underlined the importance of her trip and made her task far more difficult. "We cannot give in to terror, and it is with this in mind that I plan to travel to the Middle East as scheduled," Abright said in Prague, interrupting a vacation in her native Czech Republic. At his vacation spot on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., President Clinton said he hoped the latest bombs would give "new urgency" to U.S. peacemaking efforts. But the attack and its aftermath, which included a reimposition of the West Bank and Gaza Strip closure that Israel had begun to ease earlier this week, limit the maneuvering room for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and make it far less likely that Albright can achieve any sort of progress in the stalled peace process, Middle East experts said. Unlike her predecessor, Warren Christopher, who traveled to the Middle East on average about every seven weeks, Albright said she would go to the region only when there is a realistic chance for success. A month ago, she lowered that standard a bit but said she still will insist on improvements in security cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians. The latest bombing seemed totunder- cut all the conditions she had carefully established. But administration officials said it would have been awkwardito pull back yesterday because that is what the terrorists wanted. And when Netanyahu and Arafat urged her to continue with her plans, it became impossible to can- cel them. AP PHOTO A bomb went off yesterday in downtown Jerusalem killing four people and wounding almost 200 others. The blast also killed the three suicide bombers. But some Middle East experts said Albright undermined her own credibili- ty by setting impossible conditions for her first official visit. "Even before this bombing, she had made a tough situation even tougher by delaying the trip," said Richard Haass, the chief Middle East expert of the National Security Council during the Bush administration. "That only built up expectations. Also we saw a deterio- ration of the situation on the ground. The Middle East in September is in considerably worse shape than the Middle East was in February." Nevertheless, the bombing will not spell the end of the peace process or the U.S. participation in it, policy analysts said: U.S. interests in the Middle East are just too important to allow the adminis- tration to turn its back on the region. "Terrorism has made the job of the diplomats harder, but it is not impossi- ble," said Haass, now director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "Things are so bad that it doesn't take a whole lot to begin to reverse the momentum. It will take a lot of effort, not only by Secretary Albright but by her boss. This administration has been missing in action on the Middle East." As a consequence of the bombii Albright is expected to focus on t' security situation in Israel, urging Arafat and his Palestinian police tb- increase their counterterrorism cooper- ation with Israel. Progress in security cooperation is a prerequisite for every-' thing else, U.S. officials said, even' though they conceded that Arafat can- not stop all terrorism, no matter what he might do. On Capitol Hill, a bipartisan group'of House members called on the secreta of state to "reduce the size of the age da to one item only: the eradication of terror." Mideast bomb casts shadow on" conference *MCAT is a registered trademark of the Association of American Medical Colleges. US Computer Exchange Inc,, New & Refurbished Computer Products and Peripherals Since 1990 Los Angeles Tumes *1 I. BUY SELL TRADE LEASE Lrk. If you buy your books with the Deal sticker on them, you can sell them back at the end of the semester for at least 50% of what you paid for them. 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News of the terrorist attacks was announced to the Forum 2000 confer- ence by author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, who is hosting the unusual meeting with Czech President Vaclav Havel. "It moves us very often to a sense of helplessness," Wiesel said. "Here w are - Jews, Buddhists, Christians an Muslimsg- and we try to speak, we try to fight prejudice, promote under- standing, and do something together. ... But there are people who use death as an instrument, as a means of per- suasion." The bombings cast a shadow over the opening of the three-day confer- ence, which had already gotten off to a start more somber than uplifting. About 60 prominent personalities fro around the world - including 10 Nobel Prize recipients and eight cur rent or former heads of state - were invited by Wiesel and Havel to Prague Castle to propose alternatives for the future that "diminish the plight and pain of people." 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